Uncertain futures : essays about the Irish past for Roy Foster / edited by Senia Paseta.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Pašeta, Senia, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ireland--History.

Ireland.

Foster, R. F. (Robert Fitzroy), 1949-.

Foster, R. F.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (311 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2016.

Summary:

Marking Roy Foster's retirement from the Carroll Professorship of Irish history at the University of Oxford, and recognising his extraordinary career as a historian, literary critic, and public intellectual, this essay collection charts Foster's career while reflecting on developments in the field of Irish history writing, teaching, and research.

Contents:

Cover; Uncertain Futures: Essays about the Irish Past for Roy Foster; Copyright; Acknowledgements; Table of Contents; List of Contributors; Introduction; Part I; 1: RFFA: Writing Life; Acknowledgemen ts; 2: Roy Foster, an Irish Historian in Britain; 3: Roy Foster and Oxford; I; II; Part II; 4: The Impediments to Freehold Ownership of Land and the Character of the Irish Land War; I; II; III; IV; V; VI; 5: British Politicians and the Transformation of Rural Society in Nineteenth-Century Ireland; 6: Gladstone and Ireland: The Perils of the Intellectual; 7: Land War Homicides; I; II; III; IV

8: The Parnell-Churchill Nexus: Arthur Baumann, Winston Churchill, and Roy Foster9: A Temper of Misgiving: W. B. Yeats and the Ireland of Synge's Time; I THE NIMBLE PLAYBOY; II HUMOUR IS OF THE SHADOWED PART; III A WATCH WAS FLUNG; 10: Breaking Faith: Elizabeth Bowen and Disloyalties; 11: Between the Redmondite and Revolutionary Generations: Denis Gwynn in Old and New Ireland; I; II; III; IV; 12: Fighting their Fathers' Fight: The Post-Revolutionary Generation in Independent Ireland; I; II; III; 13: Force, Law, and the Irish Revolution; 14: The Strange Death of Loyalist Monaghan, 1912-1921; I

IIIII; IV; V; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 15: Feeding the Cats: Yeats and Pound at Rapallo, 1928; 16: 'Sense and Shite': Roddy Doyle, Roy Foster, and the Past History of the Future; I; II; III; IV; 17: Theobald Wolfe Tone and the Common Name of Irishman in 1960s Ireland; 18: 'There's No Banshee Now': Absence and Loss in Twentieth-Century Dublin; I; II; III; 19: Provisional Truths: IRA Memoirs and the Peace Process; I; II; III; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS; 20: Seminars and Shootings: Politics, History, and University Teaching in Belfast

21: Shamrock and Saltire: Irish Home Rule, Independence, and the Scottish Referendum, 1914-2014I; II; III; IV; V; VI; 22: Words and Irish History: An Experiment; I AN IRISH THESAURUS; II SOME QUESTIONS; III IRELAND'S FIGHT FOR FREEDOM; IV IRELAND'S REJECTION OF FREEDOM; V RESOLUTIONS?; Bibliography of the Major Writings of Roy Foster to 2014; BOOKS; Monographs; Catalogue; Essay Collections; Edited Collections; ESSAYS-CONTRIBUTIONS TO EDITED COLLECTIONS; Academic Articles; INTRODUCTIONS AND FOREWORDS; BOOK REVIEWS; Academic Journals; Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-19-181093-2

0-19-106518-8